Author: PFIZMAIER, AUGUST (Transl & Ed.) / TANEFIKO, RIUTEI:
Title: Sechs Wandschirme in Gestalten der vergänglichen Welt. Ein japanischer Roman in Originaltexte sammt den Facsimiles von 57 japanischen Holzschnitten. 57 (Six screens of the floating world). Wien, Aus der kaiserl. königl. Hof- und Staats-Druckerei, 1847.
Description: . Tall 8vo. (14.2 x 23.2 cm). German part: pp. (ii), v-xiv, 1-40, one blank leaf + Japanese part: Title page to first part, pp. (38), title page to second part, pp. (44). The Japanese part is richly illustrated. Printed on fine paper and bound in the Japanese fashion (fukuro-toji). Modern red morocco, covers blind-stamped, lettered in gilt. Original printed wrappers are with bound.First edition of the first translated Japanese novel published in Europe. The work contains a German translation of "Ukiyogata Six-Piece Byubu" written by Rituei Tanefiko in 1821, along with the original Japanese text. The translator, August Pfizmaier was a renowned Austrian orientalist and Japanese scholar. He used a book that Philipp Franz von Siebold brought back from Japan. (Siebold donated about 60 of his books to the Imperial Library of Vienna in the 1830s). The illustrations are reproduced from the original using zinc lithography printing and the Japanese text in calligraphy was reconstructed. A special continuous typeface was created. It has been highly evaluated in terms of the history of Japanese printing and the history of moveable type. A very rare work with attempts to reproduce the original work, including the woodblock text, illustrations, paper and binding.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, novel,


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